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2010-04-07 China-Japan-Koreas

Norks sentence U.S. man to 8 years of hard labor

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Posted by Steve White 2010-04-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 Is this guy a complete idiot? What did he think he was going to do, convert North Korea to his beliefs. I'd say 8 years in NK is a death sentence unless of course he is used as bait.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-04-07 08:34|| 2010-04-07 08:34|| Front Page Top

#2 There's a lot of that kind of thing around, JohnQC. Quite a few of them have rung my doorbell over the years... and one is a favourite niece that my husband has decided to cut off for her insistent refusal to accept that she needs to respect the religious choices of others.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-04-07 08:47|| 2010-04-07 08:47|| Front Page Top

#3 He still is a US citizen which warrants concern.

Posted by newc 2010-04-07 09:53|| 2010-04-07 09:53|| Front Page Top

#4 He still is a US citizen which warrants concern.

He defied a travel warning. He can't go singlehandedly throwing a monkey wrench into the situation, so I say let him suffer the consequences.

Posted by gorb 2010-04-07 09:57|| 2010-04-07 09:57|| Front Page Top

#5 They would be well advised to keep him in solitary. He has years of exposure to freedom and news that could infect the entire prison camp like a disease. That is a quick way to have a full fledged slave revolt.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-04-07 10:00|| 2010-04-07 10:00|| Front Page Top

#6 first 2 names sound muslim . screw him

Posted by chris 2010-04-07 11:14|| 2010-04-07 11:14|| Front Page Top

#7 Well, he ain't a chick, which means Bubba won't be showing up...

Posted by mojo 2010-04-07 11:16|| 2010-04-07 11:16|| Front Page Top

#8 Maybe he wants to be like the Apostle Paul who considered his Roman prison guards to be a captive audience. He had them right where he wanted them.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-04-07 11:35|| 2010-04-07 11:35|| Front Page Top

#9 first 2 names sound muslim . screw him

Nope. Aijalon Mahli Gomes. African Christian, possibly immigrant.

Aijalon: Aijalon (also spelled Ayalon) is a place in ancient Israel first mentioned in the Book of Joshua
Mahli: Mahali (also Mahli) was a son of Merari of the house of Levi according to Exodus 6:19, born in Egypt.
Gomes = Gomez

Posted by ed 2010-04-07 11:50|| 2010-04-07 11:50|| Front Page Top

#10 ok ed, I will correct myself. He was crossing into NK, screw him

Posted by chris 2010-04-07 14:15|| 2010-04-07 14:15|| Front Page Top

#11 Well, the precedent used to be that countries were afraid to let anything happen to Americans. *I guess no more.

Posted by newc 2010-04-07 15:38|| 2010-04-07 15:38|| Front Page Top

#12 newc, it's been a long time since that time.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-04-07 16:39|| 2010-04-07 16:39|| Front Page Top

#13 Let me assure everyone that the US State Department considers Americans in trouble abroad the equivalent of a nasty cockroach problem that never goes away no matter how much you spray.

Posted by gromky 2010-04-07 22:26|| 2010-04-07 22:26|| Front Page Top

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